Syrian refugee family together in the Chicago suburbs

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Members of the Haj Khalaf family — Abdulmajeed, from left Sham, Baraa, Aya and Khaled and Fattoum Bakir — set up outside their Skokie home for an evening tradition. The family fled the civil war in Syria and was allowed to resettle in the U.S.

Members of the Haj Khalaf family — Abdulmajeed, from left Sham, Baraa, Aya and Khaled and Fattoum Bakir — set up outside their Skokie home for an evening tradition. The family fled the civil war in Syria and was allowed to resettle in the U.S. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)